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Finnair to open 12 new routes for the summer of 2016 including Svalbard

Finnair (Helsinki) has announced its expansion for next summer:

Finnair is opening four new routes to Edinburgh, Billund, Pula and Svalbard for summer 2016.

Finnair will start flying to Edinburgh from April 18 to October 27, 2016.

Flights to Billund in Jutland, Denmark, will become a year round destination from April 4, 2016.

Finnair will continue to increase its Croatia service with two weekly flights between Helsinki and Pula, from June 20 to August 12, 2016.

Finnair will be the first airline to offer scheduled international services to Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. From June 1 to August 27, 2016 there will be three weekly flights from Helsinki to the northernmost airport in the world. Svalbard – located between Norway and the North Pole, is a land of untouched arctic wilderness.

In summer 2016, new scheduled flights will replace previously chartered flights to the Greek islands of Zakynthos, Skiathos, Santorini, Mytilene and Preveza. The same will apply to Rimini and Verona in Italy and to Varna in Bulgaria.

Finnair will also increase the number of flights to the popular summer destinations of Malta, Tel Aviv in Israel and to Biarritz and Nice in France. Malta was a new destination this summer and there has been a high demand from Finland and Asia, so an extra weekly flight will be added for summer 2016.

Copyright Photo: AirlinersGallery.com. Airbus A320-214 OH-LXI (msn 1989) taxies to the gate at London’s Heathrow Airport.

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Finnair to add Pisa, Biarritz and Alanya for the 2014 summer season

Finnair‘s (Helsinki) new summer flight schedule, beginning on March 30, 2014, will offer flights to three new seasonal destinations including, Pisa, Biarritz and Alanya and will add additional frequencies to Düsseldorf, Zürich, Antalya and Vaasa. Flights to Xi´an in China continue on March 30 and to Hanoi in Vietnam on June 2.

This summer Finnair will operate three weekly flights to Alanya, Turkey from April to August. Finnair will also offer additional frequencies to its existing route to Antalya, Turkey. Flights to Turkey operate eight times per week and most of the flights are during the daytime. Finnair is the only airline to operate scheduled non-stop flights from Finland to Antalya and Alanya.

In order to serve the demand from the local business market, extra frequencies will also be added to Vaasa with an evening flight departing at 6:10 P.M. from Helsinki. With the addition of this flight Finnair will now operate six flights per day to Vaasa.

Extra frequencies are also being added to Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, Malaga, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv from June to August. Popular destinations returning to the summer schedule include Toronto (Pearson), operating with upgraded Airbus A330 aircraft from June 1 to September 21, and Chicago (O’Hare) as a codeshare with Oneworld partner American Airlines (Dallas/Fort Worth).

Finnair will also open a new route to Tromsø for the 2014 winter season. The arctic city in the far north of Norway will be served from Helsinki three times per week from January 1 until March 28, 2014.

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